The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.

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

Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.

A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal.

In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.