How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.

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

Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.

Love which economizes is never true love.

Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.