“Man cannot spend all his time doing evil, and even in the company of pirates there must be some sweet moments on their sinister ship when you feel as if you were aboard a pleasure yacht.”

“Man cannot spend all his time doing evil, and even in the company of pirates there must be some sweet moments on their sinister ship when you feel as if you were aboard a pleasure yacht.”

“She said she had learnt one thing from Balzac: that a woman's beauty is a treasure beyond price.”

“What a man Balzac would have been if he had known how to write.”

“Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.”

“The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.”

“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.”

“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. ”

“To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.”

“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.”

“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.”