What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
Life is an incurable disease.