No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.

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.

Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.

Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.