Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

Love that is not madness is not love.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.