Vivacity is the health of the spirit.

The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

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