The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.

Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices and God knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her understanding.

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.