Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses.

Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

The innocence of virgins is like milk which turns when exposed to a clap of thunder, to a tart smell, to a hot day, to the merest nothing.

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

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.