Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them.

The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment.

Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.

The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.