A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse.
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.
Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.
