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.

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory . . .

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

Tears fell from my eyes - yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and for that beauty of which the faithful mirror too plainly assured me, no remnant existed.

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

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.

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