No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.

Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.

Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!

Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and amend; but a spy is always a spy, night and day, in bed, at table, as he walks abroad; his vileness pervades every moment of his life