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..

Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune..

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one..

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

When in Turkey, do as the turkeys do..

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 wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only….

God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven..

Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory..

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….

Finance, like time, devours its own children..

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

Like evil, sublimity is also contagious..

In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that yo….

The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man..

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich..

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

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

Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune..

Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post fact….