Love which economizes is never true love.

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

A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.