Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.

Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.

Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?

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

One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.

Ah! the soft starlight of virgin eyes.

Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.