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

It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.

Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.

On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts.