If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.

Happy are those lovers who, when their senses require rest, can fall back upon the intellectual enjoyments afforded by the mind! Sweet sleep then comes, and lasts until the body has recovered its general harmony. On awaking, the senses are again active and always ready to resume their action.

Those who do not love life do not deserve it.

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it; and the greater power he ascribes to faith, the more he deprives himself of that power which God has given to him when He endowed him with the gift of reason.

Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness.

The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.