Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.

The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.

What patient can trust the knowledge of a physician without reputation or furniture, in a period when publicity is all-powerful and when the government gilds the lamp posts on the Place de la Concorde in order to dazzle the poor?

Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.