I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.