Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.

As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain.