Hatred is nearly always honest--rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love.

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

If a man needs a religion to conduct himself properly in this world, it is a sign that he has either a limited mind or a corrupt heart.

Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of the heart, they are not to be obliterated.

We should lay in a store of food, but never of pleasures; these should be gathered day by day.

A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.

It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.