The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.
Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.
Histories in blazonry and poems in stone.
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda
Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.