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

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

Mediocrity is beneath a brave soul.

A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

The future: A consolation for those who have no other.

Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.