... I never will allow myself to form an ideal of any person I desire to see, for disappointment never fails to ensue.

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

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable.

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.

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 may be dried up, but the heart - never.