No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

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

Economized love is never real love.

Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.