Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.

The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.

Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.

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

A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.