What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.

We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.

Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.