There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.
Elegance is inferior to virtue.
My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.
A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse.
Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
