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

Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding a drunken horse.

Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

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.

An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.