The problem of eternal beatitude is one of those whose solution is known only to God. Here, below, the sublimest poets have simply harassed their readers when attempting to picture paradise.
The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.
The passing joys of earthly love are gleams which reveal to certain souls the coming of joys more durable; just as the discovery of a single law of nature leads certain privileged beings to a conception of the system of the universe.
The old man’s lips were drawn in puckers, like a curtain, to either corner of his mouth.
The number of things which you do not understand increases day by day.
The most virtuous women have in them something which is never chaste.
The most natural feelings are those we are least willing to confess.
The more a man judges the less he loves.[Also known as: The more one judges, the less one loves.]
The moment a wife decides to break her marriage vow she reckons her husband as everything or nothing.
The married woman who is the most chaste may be also the most voluptuous.
The married woman is a slave whom one must know how to set upon a throne.
The married couple who intend to love each other during their whole life have no notion of a honeymoon; for them it has no existence, or rather its existence is perennial; they are like the immortals who do not understand death.
