Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

To speak of love is to make love.

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.

A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment.

The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.