The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity..

A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings..

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation..

Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all..

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt..

Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises….

Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right..

The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius..

No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love..

But does not happiness come from the soul within?.

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs ope….

Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?.

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor….

The union of a want and a sentiment..

Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this ….

When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit….

You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth..

Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks..

To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the myst….

The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way….

The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness..