Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.

The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.

There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried.

We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.

The finest pleasure is kindness to others.

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.