When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends

Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.

Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.

A breath of Paris preserves the soul.