Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved

No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.

It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.

Books and marriage go ill together.

There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!

Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.

I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.