Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.

A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.

The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!