The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

A good author, and one who writes carefully, often discovers that the expression of which he has been in search without being able to discover it, and which he has at last found, is that which was the most simple, the most natural, and which seems as if it ought to have presented itself at once, without effort, to the mind.

A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude.

Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.