The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.

Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.

Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!

The union of a want and a sentiment.