Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.

The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.

A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Women of the world crave excitement.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.