How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.
God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.
We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.