It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.