Eugène SueThinkers

A Fortune (n.) is, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in the novelist's economics, a hereditary deposit, a feudal tenement, whose dazzling and wholesome radiation fructifies everything that has the luck to fall within its range.

Love (n.) has ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠its greatest charm in the forbidden fruit: take away the fears, the dangers and the secrecy and almost nothing is left — 'if I married my mistress, where would I spend my evenings?'

Prohibition (n.) and ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠smuggling are as inseparable in love as in trade.