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

A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces as in Paris, but you dine better, because the dishes serve you are the result of mediation and study.