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

Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.

By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.

In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.

Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.

Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.