Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.

Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.

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

... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another; vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification.

We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.

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.

The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.