A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.

Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.

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

The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.

Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.

A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.