There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

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.

Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.

A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons.

Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.