Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.

Behind every fortune there is a crime.

Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.

For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.

You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.

Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.