Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.

When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.

People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

Women accept their destiny more readily than men.