Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
Hatred is the madness of the heart.
Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
On with the dance! let joy be unconfin’d No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet.
I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
Absence – that common cure of love.
I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one’s partners in the waltz of this world -not much remembered when the ball is over.
If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.
The English winter – ending in July to recommence in August.
Let no man grumble when his friends fall off, As they will do like leaves at the first breeze; When your affairs come round, one way or t’other, Go to the coffee house, and take another.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
To have joy, one must share it.