Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.

The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.

Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.

Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.

The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.