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

In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.