When women love, they forgive everything...

Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.

God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker