Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away?

People get to like a soul, but a satisfactory hat makes an impression at first sight.

All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity.

All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.

There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific.

To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life.

We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.