Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.

Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

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