Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.

A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

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