Our true passions are selfish.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.

A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he

Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?

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

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.