By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.

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.

Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.

Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.

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

Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.

The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.