When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

We have not enough strength to follow all our reason.

One should treat one's fate as one does one's health; enjoy it when it is good, be patient with it when it is poor, and never attempt any drastic cure save as an ultimate resort.

When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity.

Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.

A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.

Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.