Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth.

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.

We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility

Time,--the most independent of all things.

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body.