Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.
All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.
Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.
It is only through timidity that states are lost.