We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.

How little has situation to do with happiness. The happy individual uses their intelligence to realise things could be worse and therefore is grateful and happy. The unhappy individual does the opposite!

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation

Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.

There si nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! A friend that will go to jail for me, or an enemy that will run me through the body!

But authors before they write should read.

an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.