The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

As a rule, only the poor are generous.

Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.

Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.