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.

Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.

Be my brother or I will kill you.

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.

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 sunset glow of self-possession.