A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.

An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.

Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.

He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.