Hope says to us constantly, "Go on, go on...".

The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others..

Woman softens her own troubles by generously solacing those of others..

three-fourths of all marriages are unhappy..

It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despair….

Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality..

Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny..

Sin is not so sinful as hypocrisy..

Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty..

Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it..

Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other..