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.

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.

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

Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.

Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.

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

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.