
1. “The well of true wit is truth itself.”
2. “The debts we ourselves are the hardest to pay.”
3. “Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.”
4. “There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.”
5. “A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.”
6. “Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.”
7. “Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.”
8. “Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.”
9. “Don’t just count your years, make your years count.”
10. “Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.”
11. “Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.”
12. “The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.”
13. “That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!”
14. “Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.”
15. We never know what’s in us till we stand by ourselves”.”