He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.