In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife.

To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.

Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.

Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!

A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.