With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.

What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love.

The cat is a dilettante in fur.

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.

If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.

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.