A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

Vivacity is the health of the spirit.

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to understand the value of that silence and solitude of spiritual worlds?