Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.