Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.
Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.
As a rule, only the poor are generous.
Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.