Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.

For Pastrasche was their alpha and omega; their treasury and granary; their store of gold and wand of wealth; their bread-winner and minister; their only friend and comforter. ... Pastrasche was their dog.

Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda

Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.

The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal.

It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.