When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.
When my self is not with you, it is nowhere.
If a picture, which is but a mute representation of an object, can give such pleasure, what cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; they have in them all that force which expresses the transports of the heart; they have all the fire of our passions, they can raise them as much as if the persons themselves were present; they have all the tenderness and the delicacy of speech, and sometimes a boldness of expression even beyond it.
The name of mistress instead of wife would be dearer and more honourable for me, only love given freely, rather than the constriction of the marriage tie, is of significance to an ideal relationship.
We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity.
Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.
it is not the deed but the intention that makes the crime.
I was so grateful to be independent of the academic establishment. I thought, how awful it would be to have my future hinge on such people and such decisions.
If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?
In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.
They say that if you're afraid of homosexuals, it means that deep down inside you're actually a homosexual yourself. That worries me because I'm afraid of dogs.