Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them.

Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.

The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.

Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.

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

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.