Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.

By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.

The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.

Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.

Love knows nothing of modesty.

It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.

Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.