There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.

A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.

The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others; or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased.

We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.