Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.

When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle.

The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.