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

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

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

A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.

We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.

Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.

In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.