The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs.
You know what they say, 'You have to work at wisdom; you have to take pains to be reasonable, but to be foolish, just let yourself go.
Coquetry is the art of successful deception.
Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur.
It is better not to be loved than to be ill-loved or half-loved.
When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions.