People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.

When you want to court a woman, court her sister first

Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?

Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.