Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

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

Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.

Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.