A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.

Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in my own carriage, have my own box, and come back in comfort. All or nothing, that's my motto.' 'And a very good one,' said Madame Vauquer.

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.