He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread.

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.

Change, change,--we all covet change.

Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.

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

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.