Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!

Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.

Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle.