When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army

Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.