Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.

One hour of love has a whole life in it.

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

The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

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.

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.