Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!

From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!

The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.