I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.
Knowledge is the antidote to fear
Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers