It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.

The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.

Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.

Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife.