Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.

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

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

The most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight.

Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.