When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

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

The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.

The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.

Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.

A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!