Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.

I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Women prefer emotions to reasoning.

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.

If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.