If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

Behind every fortune there is a crime.

The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.

A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...

True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!