"Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back."

"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."

"We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age."

"The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse."