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.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a type only by employing the singularities of several similar characters.

All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.