True love rules especially through memory.

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.

In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.

By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.

In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!