Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.

Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.

Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.

A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.

The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.