Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.

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.

To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

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

An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.