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

When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.

An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.

For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?

One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.

Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.