Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.

Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.

But does not happiness come from the soul within?