The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable.

If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.

Nobody can deprive me of the fact that I had a good time.

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.

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

Marriage is the tomb of love.

economy spoils pleasure