Experience, if we only learn by it, is cheap at any price.
We are not men, but promises of men.
The greatest pleasures of love are inseparable from its greatest pains: Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.
Better to deserve praise without having it, than to have it without deserving it.
Our comforts come from God; our sorrows, from ourselves.
For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.