They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.

The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

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

Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

Passion is born deaf and dumb.