Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away?
Faults! I adore faults! I can never find too many in any creature.
To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life.
Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant.
A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.
If the gods have no sense of humor they must weep a great deal.