Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.

In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.

Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.

Love knows nothing of modesty.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

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.

They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.