On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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.