Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.

Many of us marvel at the icy insensitivity with which women snuff out their armours. But if they did not blot out the past in this manner, life for them would lose all dignity and they could never resist the fatal familiarities to which they once submitted.

When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army

The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.

The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.