But does not happiness come from the soul within?

Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere.

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

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

In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.

Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.