Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.

Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.

Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.