Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening.

Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.

A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.

Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening.

Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting.

There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.

Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.