To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

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

A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

Love which economizes is never true love.