The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.

To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.