Nothing about me surprises me.

Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

We love because we love.

In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.