The union of a want and a sentiment.

The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment.

For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.

No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.