The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.

I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better]

Do anything but love; or if thou lovest and art a woman, hide thy love from him whom thou dost worship; never let him know how dear he is; flit like a bird before him; lead him from tree to tree, from flower to flower; but be not won, or thou wilt, like that bird, when caught and caged, be left to pine neglected and perish in forgetfulness.

Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.

A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.

A friend is never alarmed for us in the right place.