To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.
Mind is the partial side of men; the heart is everything.
The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.
To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
The woman who too easily and ardently yielded her devotion will find that its vitality, like a bright fire, soon consumes itself.
Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.