The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.
Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.
The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.
Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.
Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.
Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.
Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal.
Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.
In a husband there is only a man; in a married woman there is a man, a father, and mother, and a woman.
When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.
A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true.
Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
He’s got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he’s reading the blasted things.
Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work.
There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman’s glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.
Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.
The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.