Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts.

No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.

Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.

Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.

Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.

A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.