To describe happiness is to diminish it.
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation.
...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
Far less envy in America than in France.
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.