Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they came together.

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.

An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.

Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

One hour of love has a whole life in it.