Marriage is the tomb of love.

The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable.

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when we go to see it and examine it closely.

Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.

Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.