Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.

Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks, if he has ever walked, if he could walk better, what he achieves in walking .. questions that are tied to all the philosophical, psychological, and political systems which preoccupy the world.

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

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

No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest assured: this tragedy is not a fiction. All is true.