The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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.
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
To describe happiness is to diminish it.