To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.

A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

Sects differ more in name than tenets.

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.