It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.

When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle.

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.