When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding a drunken horse.

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

When women love, they forgive everything...

The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.

Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'

A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.

Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.