Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

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.

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.