The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

three-fourths of all marriages are unhappy.

Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?

It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.

Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other.

Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty.