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.

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

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

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.

Necessity is often the spur to genius.