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.

Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

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

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.

Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.