Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.

Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.

Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.

The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.