The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

Love knows nothing of modesty.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.