Laughter is always fatal to feeling.

A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

One should not run on a new road.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

the matrimonial shoe pinches me.