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

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.

Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.