One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.'

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.

But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.

As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop.