Jean Bernard Restout, "The Pleasures of Anacreon" (s/f)

The choicest of the public are not always the public choice.

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How many people are like dogs who seem to be looking for a master!

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The great need of many is an interlocutor. They have listened, and then they have spoken, but they have never had an opportunity either to converse or to respond.

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The ideal of friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

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What do we need to make us considerate? Much good sense, and a drop of pity in the heart.

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The heart has always the pardoning-power.

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People read every thing nowadays, except books.

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I love the standard, but not the uniform.

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Liberty has no actual rights which are not grafted upon justice: and the chief duty of liberty is to defend justice.

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I love victory, but I love not triumph.

Madame Swetchine (1782-1857). The writings of Madame Swetchine. Translate by H.W. Preston. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1869.