In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.