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.

A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons.

The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.

The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin.