The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.

The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.

The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers - is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.