“Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply.”

“Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.”

“You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.”

“Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.”

“It is only by way of pain one arrives at pleasure”

“The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment.”

“The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.”