I am then never less alone than when alone

The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will -the very names of these despised qualities are better than anything else that could be substituted for them, and embalm even the most envenomed satire against them.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.

I am then never less alone than when alone