When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.
Love is cruel as the grave.
The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.
Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.
Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.
The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves.