A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.

Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.

In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.

Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.