The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.

Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.

Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.