One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.

The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.

I have fled my country and gone to the heather.

I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.

I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.

No coward soul is mine.

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

You're hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can't make yourself content.