Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.

By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.