How we are born to invent our own miseries!

Hope is slowly extinguished and quickly revived.

Avarice is rarely the vice of youth.

Can mortal prayers ensure immortal happiness?

Benevolence, like religion, awes even those it cannot win.

Let us respect even error when it has its source in virtue.

How easy it is to be unknown!

Society, that first of blessings, brings with it evils death only can cure.

Like your zodiac sign?' Percy asked. 'I'm a Leo.''No, stupid, ' Leo said. 'I'm a Leo. You're a Percy.

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

All art is propaganda.

You don't want your relationship to be in the press, but at the same time, and this is only a theory, the more you try and keep it secret, the more the media tries to crack it open.

Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.

The attention is to be kept pure.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.