Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone

The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.

nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.

The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.

Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone

Women hope that the dead love may revive; but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as a dead passion.

Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice.