Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

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.

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

The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.

I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.

People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.

They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.