People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers.
The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
No man, or woman, was ever cured of love by discovering the falseness of his or her lover. The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.