Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

God bless us, every one!

There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner.

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!

Never sign a valentine with your own name.

Flora, always tall, had grown to be very broad too, and short of breath; but that was not much. Flora, whom he had left a lily, had become a peony; but that was not much. Flora, who had seemed enchanting in all she said and thought, was diffuse and silly. That was much. Flora, who had been spoiled and artless long ago, was determined to be spoiled and artless now. That was a fatal blow.