The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.
When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.
Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.