Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them.

I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.

A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

True love rules especially through memory.