Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.

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

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

Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.

Glory is the sunshine of the dead

Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.