In spite of my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, I have not been able to answer the question, 'What does a woman want?'

One must not be mean with affections; what is spent of the funds is renewed in the spending itself. Left untouched for too long, they diminish imperceptibly or the lock gets rusty; they are there all right but one cannot make use of them.

We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love.

When a love relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves.

An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment.

The first human being who hurled a curse instead of a weapon ... was the founder of civilization.

One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids tying up all his capital in one concern, so, perhaps, worldly wisdom will advise us not to look for the whole of our satisfaction from a single aspiration.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.