There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that ….

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists..

To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless..

A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of cour….

For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utm….

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence..

La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne..

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband..

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart..

The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same ef….

If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible..

Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on th….

Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a type only by employing the singu….

We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment..

Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently..

White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young..

Love is the most melodious of all harmonies..

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls..

People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply..

Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will..

With monuments as with men, position means everything..