Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.

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

Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.

The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.

A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.

Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.

It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.