Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.

A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.

Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.