I feed my heart with sighs, that's all it asks, I live on tears, I think I'm born to weep; I don't complain of that, since in my state weeping is sweeter than you might believe.
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
