It is only through timidity that states are lost.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.

Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.