I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.

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

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.

Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

Things are only worth what you make them worth.