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.

Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.

Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

You may imitate, but never counterfeit.