A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.

The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.

A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.

Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.