No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.