The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.

A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool?

Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.

Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world