The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

One should always be in love.

I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.