One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.

Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

Love which economizes is never true love.

The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.

Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.

Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.