Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.

I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself