Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Women prefer emotions to reasoning.

If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.

It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.

Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love.

For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool?

Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.