The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.

Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.

The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.

If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.

I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

Dandyism is a variety of genius.