Calumny is the offspring of Envy.

Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.

Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection.

It is a sad thing to look at happiness only through another's eyes.

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

Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.