He loves little who loves by rule.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.

No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.