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

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

He who leaves the game wins it.

Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.

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.

We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.

Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but even repelled, in some sort, at all their points of contact.