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.

Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.

Love is the poetry of the senses.

As a rule, only the poor are generous.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.