Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.
All beginnings are very troublesome things.
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.
of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.
We are ourselves our happiness.
Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.