Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.

Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.

Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

The State is our neighbors; our neighbors are the State.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.