As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.