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

Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

Love which economizes is never true love.

The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.