A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature?

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Conventions are often more cruel than the law.

No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale.

Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.