By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.

Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks.

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

A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and amend; but a spy is always a spy, night and day, in bed, at table, as he walks abroad; his vileness pervades every moment of his life

A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.

I am not deep, but I am very wide.

What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.