One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.

The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.

Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.

A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!

He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.