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

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.

Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

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

All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.