Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.

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.

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

When in Turkey, do as the turkeys do.

Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.