It is only the educated who can produce or appreciate high art.

I should rejoice if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to myself.

Joy takes away from us the thoughts of our actions; sorrow it is that awakens the soul.

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.

distrust ... is the beginning of hatred.

Excitement is the drunkenness of the spirits. Only calm waters reflect heaven in their bosom.

Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.