We almost always forgive those we understand.

Out of life's storm I carried only a few ideas - and not one feeling.

O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!

For what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradictThe hopes of my youth?

Russian ladies, for the most part, cherish only Platonic love, without mingling any thought of matrimony with it; and Platonic love is exceedingly embarrassing.

One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.

No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend