“As a rule, only the poor are generous.”

Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.

Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.

Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.

There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.

Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.

It’s much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.

Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us.

The ground’s generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.