Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.

When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding a drunken horse.

Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.

Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.

You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.

Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.