Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.

Vivacity is the health of the spirit.

A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.

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 greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.