Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.

Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

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

Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.