The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.