By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.

A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts.

Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.

Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love.

A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.

Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.