Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

The more you judge, the less you love.

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

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.