... it's always determined characters who make the greatest fools.

They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.

Rome ... seems to me the place in the world where one can best dispense with happiness.

When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.

Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.

Those that we love never alter, unless we cease to love them.

Assuredly of all earthly conditions uncertainty is the most unblest.