One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.

We must have done something very wicked before we were born, or else we must be going to be very happy indeed when we are dead, for God to let this life have all the tortures of expiation and all the sorrows of an ordeal.

Her delight in the smallest things was like that of a child. There were days when she ran in the garden, like a child of ten, after a butterfly or a dragon-fly. This courtesan who had cost more money in bouquets than would have kept a whole family in comfort, would sometimes sit on the grass for an hour, examining the simple flower whose name she bore.

The reason why women grown bad are worse than men is because it is the best that turns to the worst.

The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.

Love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.

We are not allowed to have hearts, under penalty of being hooted down.