To enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others.

Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.

There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.

Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.

the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.

Nothing more strongly marks the insufficiency of luxuries than the ease with which people grow accustomed to them; they are rather known by their want than by their presence. The word 'blasé' has been coined expressly for the use of the upper classes.

We are ourselves our happiness.