Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

If we all said people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

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

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.