Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.

Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.

She commands who is blest with indifference.