Those can most easily dispense with society who are the most calculated to adorn it; they only are dependent on it who possess no mental resources, for though they bring nothing to the general mart, like beggars, they are too poor to stay at home.

The most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.

Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.

Many minds that have withstood the most severe trials have been broken down by a succession of ignoble cares.

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

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

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.