Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.

The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.

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

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.