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

To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery, but there is an admirable substitute for it... a contented spirit.

There is no magician like love.

A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.

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.