“The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.”
Marriage“A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.”
Good“The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.”
Marriage“A young bride is like a plucked flower but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.”
Wedding“Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.”
Power“When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.”
Great“Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.”
Equality“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.”
Equality“Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect without esteem they cannot exist esteem is the first demand that they make of love.”
Respect“Love is the poetry of the senses.”
Love“Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling.”
Death“But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.”
Positive“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
Forgiveness“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.”
Art“Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.”
Friendship“The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.”
Business“Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.”
Marriage“We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.”
Happiness“Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.”
Great“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.”
Art“There is something great and terrible about suicide.”
Great“Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.”
Business