In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become like women; their thoughts can revolve around the minor facts of life and penetrate their hidden meaning.

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.

Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.