Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.

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

A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!

I am a galley slave to pen and ink.