Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.
A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
Modesty is the conscience of the body.
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.
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.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
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.
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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.
There is something great and terrible about suicide.
A mother who is really a mother is never free.