Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.
One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority
There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night.