If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
There never were, since the creation of the world, two cases exactly parallel.
To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.
We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation.
A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.