A woman's head is always influenced by her heart, but a man's heart is always influenced by his head.

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.

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

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

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.

Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.

The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges.