Pain has no effect but to steal some of my time.
Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.
It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.
Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
As to marriage, I think the intercourse of heart and mind may be fully enjoyed without entering into this partnership of daily life.
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.