The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

Vivacity is the health of the spirit.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will?

The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

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