anybody's applause is better than nobody's.

There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.

The truth is, we never make for others the allowance we make for ourselves; and we should deny even our own words, could we hear them spoken by another.

In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction.

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

The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours; and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.