Women hope that the dead love may revive; but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as a dead passion.
There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough, till the welkin rings with it.
We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.
Petty laws breed great crimes.
Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda
Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible; without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden.