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

We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.

Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.

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.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.