“What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.”

“Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!”

“Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.”

“No one ought even to desert a woman after throwing her a heap of gold in her distress! He ought to love her forever! You are young, only twenty-one, and kind and upright and fine. You'll ask me how a woman can take money from a man. Oh, God, isn't it natural to share everything with the one we owe all our happiness to? When one has given everything, how can one quibble about a mere portion of it? Money is important only when feeling has ceased. Isn't one bound for life? How can you foresee separation when you think someone loves you? When a man swears eternal love--how can there be any separate concerns in that case?”

“for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea”

“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.”

“It is absurd to pretend that one cannot love the same woman always, as to pretend that a good artist needs several violins to execute a piece of music.”