Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.

A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.

Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.