There Is A Melancholy That Stems From

If It Wasn't For Me, I'd Do Brilliantly.

Calumny Is Like The Wasp Which Worries You, And Which It Is Not Best To Try To Get Rid Of Unless You Are Sure Of Slaying It; For Otherwise It Returns To The Charge More Furious Than Ever.

Hope Is But A Charlatan That Ceases Not To Deceive Us. For Myself Happiness Only Began When I Had Lost It.

Marriage, As Practised By High Society, Is Arranged Indecency.

Nature In Causing Reason And The Passions To Be Born At One And The Same Time Apparently Wished By The Latter Gift To Distract Man From The Evil She Had Done Him By The Former, And By Only Permitting Him To Live For A Few Years After The Loss Of His Passions Seems To Show Her Pity By Early Deliverance From A Life That Reduces Him To Reason As His Sole Resource.