Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.

Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

Sects differ more in name than tenets.

Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.