Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.

Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.

Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.

When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.