As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.

economy spoils pleasure

From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.

Give me a man who is man enough to give himself just to the woman who is worth him. If that woman were me,I would love him alone and forever

We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.