Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.

By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.

A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

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