To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
Our true passions are selfish.
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.