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

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

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.