Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

Many of us marvel at the icy insensitivity with which women snuff out their armours. But if they did not blot out the past in this manner, life for them would lose all dignity and they could never resist the fatal familiarities to which they once submitted.

There is nothing original; all is reflected light.

A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal.

A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.

Like evil, sublimity is also contagious.

The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.