If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.

Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

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