All human power is a compound of time and patience.
All ends in God; and many are the ways to find Him by walking straight before us.
Alas! if your wife has not yet kissed the apple of the Serpent, the Serpent stands before her.
Adultery does not establish itself in the heart of a married woman with the promptness of a pistol-shot.
A woman’s thought is endowed with incredible elasticity. When she receives a knockdown blow, she bends, seems crushed, and then renews her natural shape in a given time.
A woman’s life begins with her first passion.
A woman ought to be very glad to suffer for one she loves!
A woman deprived of her free will can never have the credit of making a sacrifice.
A woman can always conceal her troubles; for her child, or for the man she loves, she can laugh in the midst of suffering.
A wife is to her husband just what her husband has made her.
A virtuous woman has in her heart one fibre less or one fibre more than other women; she is either stupid or sublime.
A mother’s life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.