What moralist can deny that well-bred and vicious people are much more agreeable than their virtuous counterparts? Having crimes to atone for, they provisionally solicit indulgence by showing leniency toward the defects of their judges. Thus they pass for excellent folk.

I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.

The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.

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

Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.

Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.