If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.

Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.

The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.

Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?

Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.

Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.