Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin.

Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.

To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.