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

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.

Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.

three-fourths of all marriages are unhappy.

Woman softens her own troubles by generously solacing those of others.

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

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