Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.

That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.

One crime has to be concealed by another.