When women love, they forgive everything...

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

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

No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.