A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!

A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.

But does not happiness come from the soul within?

There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.