Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.