Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned

The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.