In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is.

Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.

Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.

A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.