Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread.

Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.

What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.