One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.
Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.
I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.
A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.
the last steps of life are ever slow and difficult.