"When alone, I have never known what it is to feel weary, even when I am entirely unemployed; my imagination fills up …"

"Chère amie, ne savez-vous pas que la vertu est un état de guerre, et que, pour y vivre, on a toujours quelque combat …"

"As a general rule—never substitute the symbol for the thing signified, unless it is impossible to show the thing itse…"

"A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue."

"Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array,— Days of absence, I am weary: She I love is far away."

"L'accent est l'âme du discours."

"An honest man nearly always thinks justly."

"All that time is lost which might be better employed."

"Let's go dance under the elms: Step lively, young lassies. Let's go dance under the elms: Gallants, take up your pipes."

"I shall need only myself to be happy."