It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.

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

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

In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.

There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.