Great Throughts Treasury

"Too many opportunities to acquire seem to diminish the value of what we have"

"Union does everything when it is perfect. It satisfies desires, simplifies needs, foresees the wishes, and becomes a constant fortune."

"We do know that the reports , or the forms, the end and the fuel of beings remain impenetrable."

"We would know evil in relation to itself the other men , if only one knew not well yourself."

"Whence comes to man the most sustainable of the pleasures of his heart, the pleasure of melancholy , this charming full of secrets , who is living his pain and s' love even in the sense of its ruin? [Where does the most enduring human enjoyments of his heart, the pleasure of melancholy, this charming full of secrets, which makes its living pain and still love the feeling of ruin?]"

"When a man does not form connections, it is going to be the point considered, but a woman whom no one seems to have failed to attach any part."

"When money represents so many things, not to love it would be to love nearly nothing. To forget true needs can be only a weak moderation; but to know the value of money and to sacrifice it always, maybe to duty, maybe even to delicacy,—that is real virtue."

"Without doubt it is natural to include that love long what we love so much."