Finance, like time, devours its own children.
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
A husband who submits to his wife’s yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman’s influence ought to be entirely concealed.
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
Love is a game in which one always cheats.
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
Modesty is the conscience of the body.
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