Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.
In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.