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.

Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.

What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

I doubt not that in due time, when the arts are brought to perfection, some means will be found to give a sound head to a man who has none at all.

Minds differ still more than faces.

All sects differ, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

To wish the greatness of our own country is often to wish evil to our neighbors. He who could bring himself to wish that his country should always remain as it is, would be a citizen of the universe.

Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.

One day everything will be well, that is our hope: Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.