For love and beauty and delight, there is no death nor change.

It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.

When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.

I Fall upon the thorns of life.

The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.

But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart!