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

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.

Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.

Resignation is a daily suicide.

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

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.