Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument.

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

Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.