Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.

A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.

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

Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.