Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves..

But also remember: if you have any genuine feelings, hide them like treasure; never let anyone so much as suspect them, or you're lost. Instead of be….

Sects differ more in name than tenets..

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed..

Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen..

Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain..

Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, simi….

A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and ….

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

We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, ….

Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights..

There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or th….

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power..

Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities..

Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit..

Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth..

A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die..

We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are..

Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?.

Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her..

Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion..