But woman brings disorder into society through passion.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.

To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.

The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.