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

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of 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.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.