Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.

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

The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.

When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.

Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.

Temperament is the thermometer of character.

Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.