Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.

Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.

We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.

Consult duty not events.

It is delightful to kiss the eyelashes of the beloved--is it not? But never so delightful as when fresh tears are on them.

God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.

No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.