Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

Success makes success, like money makes money.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.