Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.
Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.