You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Never underestimate the power of love. The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost. The heart has its reasons that reason does not know at all. Music is love in search of a word. There is pleasure in the pathless woods; there is a rapture on the lonely shore; There is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar.

Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy

That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.

Rough Johnson, the great moralist.

Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

My native land, good night!

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.