Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.

I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.

A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.

A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.