Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of l….

Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my….

Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues..

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established..

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true..

God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker.

Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apat….

Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work..

Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage..

When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the p….

There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy..

People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are..

There are words which cut like steel..

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through th….

Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes..

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane..

Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like tha….

There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances..

The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again..

Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness..

Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God.