Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.

Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.

Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.

The union of a want and a sentiment.

Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.

The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.

Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.