Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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 true passion thinks only of itself.
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.