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

Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In such situations, they become like ancient statues. If they kept the merest scarf on, they would be lewd. Your bourgeois woman will always try to cover her nakedness.