A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
Any one who is much talked of be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how much more given men are to depreciate than to appreciate, you will acknowledge that there is some truth in the saying.
The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?