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

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.

In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.