“He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.”

“She said she had learnt one thing from Balzac: that a woman's beauty is a treasure beyond price.”

“What a man Balzac would have been if he had known how to write.”

“Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.”

“The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.”

“The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.”

“Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.”

“It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment. ”

“To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.”

“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.”

“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.”