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

Nothing about me surprises me.

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.

Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.

A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance