Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.

Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.

One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.

A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.

During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.