Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.

Association with women is the basis of good manners.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.

No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's.

In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!