A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.
Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.
We cannot wish for that we know not.
Man is free at the instant he wants to be.