Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.

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

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers

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

When we find that we are not liked, we assert that we are not understood; when probably the dislike we have excited proceeds from our being too fully comprehended.

Some people are capable of making great sacrifices, but few are capable of concealing how much the effort has cost them; and it is this concealment that constitutes their value.

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