Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.

Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.