I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.
Nothing comes of severity if there be no leanings towards a change of heart. And if there be natural leanings towards a change of heart, what need for severity?
Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
You are as prone to love, as the sun is to shine.
It merely shews, after all, that affection is a habit.
I don't have any regrets about not having kids. I've just never had those maternal feelings. I am a nurturer by nature, but I nurture adults: my friends, the people I work with. I don't want to nurture children.
A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.
The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.
