The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.

There are words which cut like steel.

The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.

Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.