The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In such situations, they become like ancient statues. If they kept the merest scarf on, they would be lewd. Your bourgeois woman will always try to cover her nakedness.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.

Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another.

Resignation is a daily suicide.

The more you judge, the less you love.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.