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.

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

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

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

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.