Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.
Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.
God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.