Hatred is blind, as well as love.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.

When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage." and the portrait "in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty." p 349

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.