The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

In Paris, the greatest expression of personal satisfaction known to man is the smirk on the face of a male, highly pleased with himself as he leaves the boudoir of a lady.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.

Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.