Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.

Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone

nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.

Histories in blazonry and poems in stone.

There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.

A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.