Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.

For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.