To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
Excess always carries its own retribution.
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.
One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.
No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.
A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.