The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.

Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.