Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything familiarity.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

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

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

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

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

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

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

What is art Nature concentrated.

The more one judges, the less one loves.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea.

I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

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

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

No man should marry before he has studied anatomy and dissected the body of a woman.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

This coffee plunges into the stomach...the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop...the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp-shooters.

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

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

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

All human power is a compound of time and patience.