Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.
Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.
A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.
Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.