A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.