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

Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.

The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In such situations, they become like ancient statues. If they kept the merest scarf on, they would be lewd. Your bourgeois woman will always try to cover her nakedness.

To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?

A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.