To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.

When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

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...

Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.