Vivre est un maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les 16 heures. C'est un pallatif. La mort est le remede.

A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.

Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.

Chance is a nickname for Providence.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.