It is sometimes best to slip over thoughts and not go to the bottom of them.

if I inflict wounds, I heal them.

. . . 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.

We are so fond of hearing ourselves spoken of, that, be it good or ill, it is still pleasing.

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

There is nothing so lovely as to be beautiful. Beauty is a gift of God and we should cherish it as such.

Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.