Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory . . .

Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.

Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.

Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back, with their bland odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young life knows, ere we have learnt that this fair earth hides graves.

Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,--they are better critics than authors.

Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.