What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?

Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.

There is no protection against slander.

Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.