It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.

Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee, It passed into thy lifelong regency.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.