I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Remember my unalterable maxim, "When we love, we always have something to say.

The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.

people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.

Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.

Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.