[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.
Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.