Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.

Of all trifles, titles are the lightest.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past.

Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other.

To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks with the same key.

There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.