Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda

What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?

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!

We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.

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.

Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.

Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.