We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be.

The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.

Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.

With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most important element in human happiness.

Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.