Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'

No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.

Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain.

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

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.

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.