The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.