It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women.

Whatever may have been said of the satiety of pleasure and of the disgust which usually follows passion, any man who has anything of a heart and who is not wretchedly and hopelessly blasé feels his love increased by his happiness, and very often the best way to retain a lover ready to leave is to give one's self up to him without reserve.

Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.

The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.

Only that which serves no end is beautiful; everything useful is ugly.

White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments.

Modesty was made for the ugly.