Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.

The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.

When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.

Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you may depend. Do not balk at this apparent slavery....a debtor to many, you pay for your advantages by the same number of dependencies. Understand that independence is a form of poverty; that many things claim you, that many also claim kinship with you.

Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.

It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.