Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.

Reason deceives us; conscience, never.

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.

Two things, almost incompatible, are united in me in a manner which I am unable to understand: a very ardent temperament, lively and tumultuous passions, and, at the same time, slowly developed and confused ideas, which never present themselves until it is too late. One might say that my heart and my mind do not belong to the same person.