What is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood?.

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it..

Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown..

With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is t….

In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge..

Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the ….

A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and amend; but a spy is always….

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

Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop..

The more you judge, the less you love..

L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art..

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity..

You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil..

If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze o….

The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and….

A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste..

Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in sto….

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God..

Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Me….

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth….

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband..