A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.

Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.

Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love, it feels no need to set a conflagration.

Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.

A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.