Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.

Resignation is a daily suicide.

True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.

Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.

Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.