Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

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

Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.

We love because we love.