I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.

If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool's notion of history.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.