The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.

Beauty may be the object of liking--great qualities of admiration--good ones of esteem--but love only is the object of love.

Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.

Dignity and love were never yet boon companions.

However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.