There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

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.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

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.

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.

Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.