No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.

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

Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.

All happiness depends on courage and work.

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