Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.

Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.

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.

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.