When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.

A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.

Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.