100 Books You Must Read Before You Die [volume 1] (Black Horse Classics)

Intercourse with the world and the endeavor to satisfy his growing desires had brought out his defects

A sister’s heart is a diamond for purity, a deep sea of tenderness

There are women who will fall in love with a man because another woman has chosen him; like the city madams, poor things, who copy our millinery, and hope thereby to acquire our manners

Yet, if you have a heart, lock it carefully away like a treasure; do not let any one suspect it, or you will be lost; you would cease to be the executioner, you would take the victim’s place. And if ever you should love, never let your secret escape you! Trust no one until you are very sure of the heart to which you open your heart. Learn to mistrust every one; take every precaution for the sake of the love which does not exist as yet

The more cold-blooded your calculations, the further you will go

deal with the world as it deserves

his first day on the battlefield of civilization in Paris

it would be much better to do it by letter, and not to utter the words that should stab her to the heart

There are men who feel more at their ease when they stand up before another man who threatens their lives with sword or pistol than in the presence of a woman

It is one of the most detestable habits of a Liliputian mind to credit other people with its own malignant pettiness