From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.

Poles offer a mobility like that of the wind that blows over the immense plains and marches of Poland. Show a Pole a precipice, and he will leap headlong over it.