No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.

Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.

Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.

For avarice begins where poverty ends.

To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.