Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

You were wise not to waste years in a lawsuit ... he who commences a suit resembles him who plants a palm-tree which he will not live to see flourish.

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

... I never will allow myself to form an ideal of any person I desire to see, for disappointment never fails to ensue.

A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.

Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.

Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery, but there is an admirable substitute for it... a contented spirit.