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

Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.