To love is to choose.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.

Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.