Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.

But woman brings disorder into society through passion.

Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.