It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.

Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.

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.

Love knows nothing of modesty.

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.