When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.
Jean de la BruyereWe seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice.
Jean de la BruyereOne seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
Jean de la Bruyere