In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.

Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

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

Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will?

Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.