Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.

Books wind into the heart.

By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns; so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.