The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.

Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?

By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.

Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.

Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.

The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.