there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen.

Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.

Many love me, but by none am I enough beloved.

One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.