Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.

The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

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

Like evil, sublimity is also contagious.

This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.