What is art? Nature concentrated.

Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.

A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.

Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.