Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

It's not enough to be a good person. You also have to show it.

As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

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

In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.

Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.