[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.

A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,--the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and courage; the instinctive desire to cherish those who are innocent and unhappy, and defend those who are tender and weak.

Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.

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.

To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

Love makes fools of us all, big and little.