A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.

To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.