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

True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!

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.

Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.

In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.

The more you judge, the less you love.

The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.