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

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

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.

Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.

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

There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.