The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.

It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.

No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.

We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.