I am better than my reputation
It is play and only play that makes man complete.
We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections.
While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.
He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.
The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.