We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.

No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

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

The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In such situations, they become like ancient statues. If they kept the merest scarf on, they would be lewd. Your bourgeois woman will always try to cover her nakedness.

Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.

If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.