“The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the secret anniversaries of the heart
“Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs
“There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
“Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
“There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.