A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.

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

On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts.

Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.