True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

We love because we love.

According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.

Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.