Love is the symbol of eternity.
I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.
Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.
What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.
The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.
nothing is so horrifying as the possibility of existing simply because we do not know how to die.