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

The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.

A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

The union of a want and a sentiment.

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.