Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.
Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.
Love is a game in which one always cheats.
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a type only by employing the singularities of several similar characters.