Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

She hates everything that is not what she longs for.