In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Reading brings us unknown friends

In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.

A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.

Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.

In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.