It is better not to be loved than to be ill-loved or half-loved.
Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur.
The laws of decency enforce themselves.
Coquetry is the art of successful deception.
When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions.
The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs.