What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

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.

The superfluous is very necessary.

Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.

The superfluous is the most necessary.