O memory, thou bitter sweet,--both a joy and a scourge!

Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence.

Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature - liberty that is, and what cannot be separated from liberty, a love of country.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.

If it were not for respect for human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time, whilst I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.

there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.