To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.

Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.

Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.