There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?

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

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

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.

Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.