For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.

The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.