If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.

Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.

We all give up great expectations along the way.

The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.

There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.

It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.