However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence. We hold-back from telling them everything we think, often because we do not genuinely mean what we say; or because we take a pleasure in their plight, thankful that we are not affected.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.

Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.

Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.

Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.

No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.