To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.

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

Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.

The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.

The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.