Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.

We love because we love.

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

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

No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.