Women hope that the dead love may revive; but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as a dead passion.
Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.
Fancy tortures more people than does reality
The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.
Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.
Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible; without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden.