Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.