The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.

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.

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

God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.

one who makes no mistakes makes nothing

economy spoils pleasure

Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved.