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.

A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.

Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.

The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.

Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.

A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.