Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but even repelled, in some sort, at all their points of contact.

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.

Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.

Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.

We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.

Women of the world crave excitement.

In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.