I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.

A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.

I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.