Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.

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.

When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle.

It's not enough to be a good person. You also have to show it.

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

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