It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions
The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.
Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.
Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.