To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

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.

Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.

Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.