Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.

There are words which cut like steel.

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

Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.

People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.