Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.

In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is.

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.

The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.