As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.
The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.
How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.
To accept reason is impossible if you don't already possess it.
n every exalted joy, there mingles a sense of gratitude.
There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.