Who said “There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.”?

“The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.”

“Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.”

“Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.”

“It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.”

“I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.”

“Good music is very close to primitive language.”

“Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.”

“The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.”

“All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.”

“It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.”

“Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.”