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

Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.

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

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

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.

Tears fell from my eyes - yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and for that beauty of which the faithful mirror too plainly assured me, no remnant existed.

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