Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...

Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.

There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.