It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.

To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

Old man! 'Tis not difficult to die.