Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

Love and enthusiasm are always ridiculous, when not reciprocated by their objects.

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

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

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

Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.