Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

It is not enough to be an upright man, we must be seen to be one; society does not exist on moral ideas only

A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent

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.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea.

In a husband there is only a man; in a married woman there is a man, a father, and mother, and a woman