Pity is woman's sweetest charm.

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.