If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

When women love, they forgive everything...

Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is.