A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!

Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.