One should always be in love.

The only thing I can't resist is temptation.

To be in love is to surpass one's self.

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.