People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.

There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool's notion of history.

Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.