Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul.

I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.

The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.

Philosophers have often held dispute As to the seat of thought in man and brute For that the power of thought attends the latter My friend, thy beau, hath made a settled matter, And spite of dogmas current in all ages, One settled fact is better than ten sages. (O,Tempora! O,Mores!)

It all depends on the robber's knowledge of the loser's knowledge of the robber. - Daupin