The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
That must be fine, for I don't understand a word.
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it's good, is so very good That the bad when it's bad can't be bad!
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
If Claret is the king of natural wines, Burgundy is the queen.
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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