A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.

Flowing water is at once a picture and a music, which causes to flow at the same time from my brain, like a limpid and murmuring rivulet, sweet thoughts, charming reveries, and melancholy remembrances.

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

Women's glances express what they dare not speak.

Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.