To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.

Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.

...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.