How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.

You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.

Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.

Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.

Life is simply what out feelings do to us.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.