We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been.
It is good to have friends at court.
In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.
We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.
Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?