When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.

Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.

The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.

A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.

There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain.

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.