Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.

Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.

Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.

Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.