Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.
For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.
Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.
Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.