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

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.

Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.

Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.