Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

The man whom fate employs to awaken love in the heart of a young girl is often unaware of his work and therefore leaves it uncompleted.

Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.