Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.

In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.

An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.

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.

Ah! the soft starlight of virgin eyes.