It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation.
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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.
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.