They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.

To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.

The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.

No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.

The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.

We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.