Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.

Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.

If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.

Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!