The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

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

They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.

The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.

A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.