We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.

Indeed, there is no such thing as an altogether ugly woman — or altogether beautiful.

I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.

The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory.

Why did I love her? Because it was her; because it was me.

Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.

A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.