'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.

The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.

I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.