The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.