 All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. |
| 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 his lady's window. |
| Love is a game in which one always cheats. |
| To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought. |
| A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity. |
| Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. |
| Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow. |
| There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power. |
| If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. |
| Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. |
| The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman. |
| But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite. |
| Finance, like time, devours its own children. |
| Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys. |
| It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft. |
| A man is a poor creature compared to a woman. |
| Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood! |
| In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. |
| When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. |
| Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it. |
