Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifferen….

A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is weak when composed o….

The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact th….

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul..

To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?.

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love..

How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!.

If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving ….

In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted..

For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life..

When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights ….

Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion..

A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe..

If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible..

The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred.

However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, ….

Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice..

Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of for….

Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly..

A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!.

Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones..