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

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

I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when we go to see it and examine it closely.

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

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.

To Kiss : An attempt to absorb the essence of the other person.