Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.

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.

You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.

To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.

Gold makes the ugly beautiful.

My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.