Rage is a short-lived fury.

People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.

Let us respect gray Lairs, but, above all, our own.

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.

In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.

There are philanthropists who, incapable of managing their own little affairs, take upon themselves those of the whole world; but as their creditors always outnumber their disciples, they owe humanity more than she will ever owe them.

To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.