The most exacting jailer is our own conscience.

Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.

Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught.

The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by its own deeds.

No woman dares express all she thinks.

Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting.

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.