One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.

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

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

Like evil, sublimity is also contagious.