To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.

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

The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.