Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and...

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.

Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.