Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love.

The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.

The last Christian died on a cross.

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

Art is the great stimulus to life.

If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.