The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.

False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie.

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.