Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.

In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

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

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.

A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.