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.

Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.

He who best knows the world will love it least.

Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.

At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.

Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them.

Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.