Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.

Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.

The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.