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

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.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

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.

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.

No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere.

They forgot everything the minute they were together again.

I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.