I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left.

A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.

Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.