[Moralistic] novels are at the same disadvantage as teachers: children never believe them, because they make everything that happens relate to the lesson at hand.
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time.
The egotism of woman is always for two.
The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.
We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.
The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.