Excess always carries its own retribution.
When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to think only - What a crib from Rochefoucauld!
The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.
It needs a great nature to bear the weight of a great gratitude.
Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda
The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.