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 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.
Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.