The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
A good book is an event in my life.
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.