In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.

Sects differ more in name than tenets.

Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.

One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.

If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.