The unhappy never want enemies.

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.