Cities are the sinks of the human race.

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.

It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.

We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)

The severity of penalties is only a vain resource, invented by little minds in order to substitute terror for that respect which they have no means of obtaining.

It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.

Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature.