It is a sad thing to look at happiness only through another's eyes.

When we find that we are not liked, we assert that we are not understood; when probably the dislike we have excited proceeds from our being too fully comprehended.

There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except at the expense of a hardened or a wounded heart.

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

Men who would persecute others for religious opinions, prove the errors of their own.