The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.

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

Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.

We love because we love.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.