First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.

You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.

A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.

Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.