Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
As reason is a rebel to faith so passion is a rebel to reason.
To believe only possibilities is not faith but mere philosophy.
Life itself is but the shadow of death and souls departed but the shadows of...
We all labor against our own cure for death is the cure of all diseases.
All things are artificial for nature is the art of God.
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude and the society of...
Let age not envy draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
I understand by this passion the union of desire friendship and tenderness which is inflamed by a single female which prefers her to the rest of her sex and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.