In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost.

There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperaments.

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

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

Be the flame, not the moth.