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.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Passion is born deaf and dumb.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.