Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.

It is always our inabilities that vex us.

Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

Virtue is the health of the soul.

The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly.