Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.

Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.