It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

Wit is more necessary than beauty and I think no young woman ugly that has it and no handsome woman agreeable without it.

The excellency of every art is its intensity capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.