"Work is often the father of pleasure...." - Quote by Voltaire

“I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.”

“Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.”

“Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.”

“Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.”

“A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.”

“She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse, and then her life had been laundering, scrubbing, laundering, first for children, then for grandchildren, over thirty years. At the end of it she was still singing.”

“Rhythm is one of the most powerful of pleasures, and when we feel a pleasurable rhythm we hope it will continue. When it does, it grows sweeter.”

“No town can live peacefully whatever its laws when its citizens do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love”

“Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?”