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

Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.

Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.

The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.