Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day.

Desires are but pain and torment$$$ and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.

When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost.

I have loved women even to madness$$$ but I have always loved liberty better.

If you have not done things worthy of being written about$$$ at least write things worthy of being read.

The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone$$$ and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else.

If everybody minded their own business$$$ the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.

We looked out on Life$$$ with its strange scaffolding$$$

Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.