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

Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love.

All we are is in the soul.

Reading brings us unknown friends

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.

In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.