If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet.

Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.

The poor are the blacks of Europe.

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.

The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.

Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.