Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls..

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way..

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart..

Wrong is wrong; no fallacy can hide it, no subterfuge cover it so shrewdly but that the All-Seeing One will discover and punish it..

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes..

The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea..

A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still..

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity..

The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with en….

The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion..

Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally wears them….

Cats don't caress us-they caress themselves on us..

In general, indulgence for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not..

It is said that friendship between women is only a suspension of hostilities..

Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration..

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent..

Tenderness is the infancy of love..

Silence never yet betrayed any one!.

Women read each other at a single glance..

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future..

To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart..