The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?

If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.

No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale.

Resignation is a daily suicide.

Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.