Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.

People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.

One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does not think more of what he is about to say than of answering precisely what is said to him.

The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.

Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which theprospect of great dangers are used to produce. And by this inward strength it is that heroes preserve themselves in a calm and quiet state, and enjoy a presence of mind and the free use of their reason in the midst of those terrible accidents that amaze and confound other people.

There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.