A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons.

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

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

Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred

Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.