Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we….

One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carr….

Life is simply what out feelings do to us..

When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary..

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men..

Like evil, sublimity is also contagious..

Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter..

Finance, like time, devours its own children..

When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army.

Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?].

How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go the….

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under h….

A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her..

Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts..

The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us..

Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can tou….

Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable..

To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility..

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin..

A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation..

Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves..