A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.

Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.

A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks, if he has ever walked, if he could walk better, what he achieves in walking .. questions that are tied to all the philosophical, psychological, and political systems which preoccupy the world.

Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.