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

Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.

There is no cosmetic like happiness

Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back, with their bland odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young life knows, ere we have learnt that this fair earth hides graves.

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

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

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