Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.

They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.

Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.

Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.

Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.