Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.