My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it.

You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.

Imagination rules the world.

Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.

Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.

Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.