When we find that we are not liked, we assert that we are not understood; when probably the dislike we have excited proceeds from our being too fully comprehended.

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

The future: A consolation for those who have no other.

Grief is, of all the passions, the one that is the most ingenious and indefatigable in finding food for its own subsistence.

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

Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them.

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