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

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.

Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?

In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.