True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

There are words which cut like steel.

Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.

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

Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.

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

As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.