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

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

To appear rich, we become poor.

There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except at the expense of a hardened or a wounded heart.

Satire, like conscience, reminds us of what we often wish to forget.

Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,--they are better critics than authors.

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