Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.

What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.

Thinking is seeing.... Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the effect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.