When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.