Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed.
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.
Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.
Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health.
Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.