The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.

Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

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

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.