We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.

Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.

Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

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

An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.