A profound knowledge of life is the least enviable of all species of knowledge, because it can only be acquired by trials that make us regret the loss of our ignorance.

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.

Life would be as insupportable without the prospect of death, as it would be without sleep.

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.

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.

When the sun shines on you, you see your friends. It requires sunshine to be seen by them to advantage!