We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.
It needs a great nature to bear the weight of a great gratitude.
Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.
No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.
There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.
Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible; without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden.