Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.

A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.

But woman brings disorder into society through passion.

Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.