Glory is sometimes a low courtesan who on the road entices many who did not think of her. They are astonished to obtain favors without having done anything to deserve them.

The Congress of Vienna does not walk, but it dances.

Even beauty may present a prism wearying to the eye.

I should like to enflame the whole world with my taste for gardening. There is no virtue that I would not attribute to the man who lives to project and execute gardens.

In love it is only the commencement that charms. I am not surprised that we find pleasure in frequently recommencing.

Women are the guardians of morality.

The most happy women within their homes are those who have married sensible men. The latter suffer themselves to be governed with so much the more pleasure, as they are always masters of themselves.

However virtuous a woman may be, a compliment on her virtue is what gives her the least pleasure.

Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.

Don't constantly make angry your wife. Once she throws you out of her heart, there is no appeal

For the first time I realized I could be more than a crawling little pile of bones and flesh in a onesie.

But I live an interesting life and I can tell a pretty good story and it has helped my career. But the downside is people know everything.

Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.

i want to make it official, i want to make it forever

The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.

And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go.

It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

The aim of the missionary is to do God's will, not to be useful, not to win the heathan; he is useful and does win the heathen, but that is not his aim. His aim is to do the will of his Lord.