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.

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!

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

A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.

Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.