It would have cost me more trouble to escape from injustice, than it does to submit to it.
Deep joy is a serene and sober emotion, rarely evinced in open merriment.
Oh Liberty! Liberty! What crimes are committed in your name!
I was not always free from melancholy; but even melancholy had its charms.
It is impossible to rise to freedom, from the midst of corruptions, without strong convulsions. They are the salutary crises of a serious disease. We are in want of a terrible political fever, to carry off our foul humors.
The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. - Jeanne