A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife.

In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.

The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.