He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.