Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.

Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.

The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?