It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.

One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.

We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.

No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.

But woman brings disorder into society through passion.

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.