We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

good and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions.

. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it again.

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

I love you so passionately, that I hide a great part of my love, so as not to oppress you with it.