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

Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.

Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain.

If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

Vivacity is the health of the spirit.