No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.

Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.

In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.

What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.