I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.

To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.

Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.

Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.