Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.

Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.

Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

What patient can trust the knowledge of a physician without reputation or furniture, in a period when publicity is all-powerful and when the government gilds the lamp posts on the Place de la Concorde in order to dazzle the poor?

Temperament is the thermometer of character.