The mind has great advantages over the body; however the body often furnishes little treats ... which offer the mind relief from sad thoughts.
Hatred is nearly always honest--rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love.
Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.
Firmness is great; persistency is greater.
It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war.
Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.