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.

In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.

For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'

When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.

Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!