The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
For avarice begins where poverty ends.
A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.
A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.