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

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

Nothing about me surprises me.

Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?