“Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.”

“A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.”

“A beautiful woman is a casus belli; a pretty woman is flagrant misdemeanour. All the invasions of history have been determined by petticoats.”

“When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes”

“It was all over with him. Marius loved a woman. His destiny was entering upon the unknown. ”

“What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set out to destroy, how rapidly do they create terrifying depths?”

“Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.”