The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.

Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.

A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.

A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.

The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.

A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife.

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.