Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.

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

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated.

I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

Marriage is the tomb of love.