The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Life's objective is life itself.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

Doubt grows with knowledge.