Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?

Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may?

When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.