The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns.

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.

When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.

We perceive no charms that are not sharpened, puffed out, and inflated by artifice. Those which glide along naturally and simply easily escape a sight so gross as ours.

Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.