Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage.

We priests are the surgeons of souls, and it is our duty to deliver them of shameful secrets they would fain conceal, with hands careful to neither wound no pollute.

Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage.

I did not want to be taken for a fool-the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.

Happy men are grave. They carry their happiness cautiously, as they would a glass filled to the brim which the slightest movement could cause to spill over, or break.

The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism.

The artist's morality lies in the force and truth of his description.