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.

Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.

Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.