Their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion.

The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it.

Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.

To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a great democratic institution-in fact, democracy's only success-the night.

There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.

Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.