Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

History is fables agreed upon.

It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

What can we say with certainty?

He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

Only your friends steal your books.