The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

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

Glory is the sunshine of the dead

A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.

In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.

The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.

Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.