A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and….

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence..

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile..

Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state..

The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger..

Economized love is never real love..

Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous….

A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. T….

Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves..

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true.

Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture..

It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing..

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice..

Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood ….

A lui la foi, a' elle le doute, a' elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour deux? For him, faith; for her, dou….

Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and s….

With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man ….

The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth..

In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only..

There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that ….

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists..