The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.

There is something to be said for jealousy, because it only designs the preservation of some good which we either have or think wehave a right to. But envy is a raging madness that cannot bear the wealth or fortune of others.

One kind of flirtation is to boast we never flirt.

There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit.

L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it.