How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

Ah! the soft starlight of virgin eyes.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Conventions are often more cruel than the law.

You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.

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

There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.