Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.
Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.
The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.
Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
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.