Chélan had acted as imprudently for Julien as he had for himself. He had given him the habit of reasoning correctly, and of not being put off by empty words, but he had neglected to tell him that this habit was a crime in the person of no importance, since every piece of logical reasoning is offensive.

Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

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

It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.

Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.