Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

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

The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.