It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to understand the value of that silence and solitude of spiritual worlds?

An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.

A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.

Resignation is a daily suicide.

Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another.