There are some chagrins of the heart which a friend ought to try to console without betraying a knowledge of their existence, as there are physical maladies which a physician ought to seek to heal without letting the sufferer know that he has discovered their extent.

Life would be as insupportable without the prospect of death, as it would be without sleep.

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

Many minds that have withstood the most severe trials have been broken down by a succession of ignoble cares.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

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.

Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them.