Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.
This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude.
There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work.
It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.
The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
Such a great misfortune, not to be able to be alone.