Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?.

No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea..

He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things..

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over..

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps..

Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or bene….

The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste..

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

It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers..

Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike..

What is art? Nature concentrated..

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment..

Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passa….

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love..

Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence..

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintan….

How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch….

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

Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without bei….

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

Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power..