Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.
It is not an event; it is a piece of news.
Nothing succeeds so well as success.
Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.
Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait.
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.