We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.

You're going to women? Don't forget your whip!

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.

The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.

Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.

When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.