Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.