François VI. de La Rochefoucauld Quote

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife

All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance