Women bestow on friendship only what they borrow from love.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy.

She commands who is blest with indifference.

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.