A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere.

One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.

Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.