Though sages may pour out their wisdom’s treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.