For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives.

A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.