Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.

What moralist can deny that well-bred and vicious people are much more agreeable than their virtuous counterparts? Having crimes to atone for, they provisionally solicit indulgence by showing leniency toward the defects of their judges. Thus they pass for excellent folk.

It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.

Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space.

Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

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

Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.