For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.

Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!

Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.