Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.

When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?

He who best knows the world will love it least.

No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.