When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a type only by employing the singularities of several similar characters.

Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.