Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?

At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.

Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.