One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.

Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.

France lost a great novel last night.

A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.

God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.