Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.
To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
The memories which come to us through music are not accompanied by any regrets; for a moment music gives us back the pleasures it retraces, and we feel them again rather than recollect them.
I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.
Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.