The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.

Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?

To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?

Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.