Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.

Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.

Like evil, sublimity is also contagious.

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.