A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!

Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold?

Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.