Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give.
Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown.