Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.

Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence is the expression of its yearning tenderness.

The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half.

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.